Concorde Square
In Concorde Square, an octagonal setting finished in 1772 once organized royal ceremony on a grand scale: Ange-Jacques Gabriel planned a space meant to hold an equestrian statue of King Louis XV, commissioned in 1748. The square covered 7.6 hectares—about 19 acres—and was intended to dominate the approach between the Tuileries and the city’s edge. That purpose was overtaken by revolution. Between the French Revolution’s turning points, this same ground became the stage for public executions, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Maximilien Robespierre—when the square was temporarily renamed Place de la Révolution. In 1795, it received the name Place de la Concorde as a gesture of reconciliation, after earlier names such as Place Louis XV and Place Louis XVI. The original octagonal layout is gone, but the legacy of that political drama remains embedded in the landscape. …
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